Knockdown fruit-basket.



A. A. VERRETTB.

KNOCKDOWN FRUIT BASKET.

APPLICATION FILED maze, 1911v 1,050,407, Patented Jan. 14,1913.

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-UN1TED'STATE S PATENT OFFICE;

KNoc DowN FRUIT-BASKET.

. 1 050 407 v I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan 14 Application area August 26, 1911. Serial No. 646,121. 1 V I intermediate portions 1", f, and a bracing To att whom it nay concern: portion at the vertex of the angle lbe- Be it known that-I, ARTH A, Vi-umn'rm, tween said portions f f formed by bind- I a citizen ofthe United States, residing at ing the wire in loop form at right angles .Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State thereto. The elasps f, f are sufiiciently 60. 5 of Massachusetts, have im'ented an Inn yielding to permit them to'be forced astride provement in Knockdown Fruit-Baskets, 'the adjacent sides and overlapping ears-,- so of which the following is a specification. as to press said sides and, ears together, This. invention relates to certain improvewhile the intermediate port-ion b, b restsments in knockdown baskets, especially that against the inner surfaces of the sides and 65 11) class of open baskets which are used to conpresses thedn'acing po'rtion f into the cottainsmaltfruits. nerfagainst the adjacent o verla ing 11 g:-

The object of hay invention is to provide, thereby providing a strong rein o'rcement a form of basket of the above described for the corner, and assist inntierially inholdcharacter, which may be readily cut out of ing the box in shape. The-action ofthe con- 15 cardboard and bent into the desired fornn'or nccting portions f and f and the corner which may be provided in a flat blank, for bracing portion f of the clip tare particu shipment or storage, and formed into a larly important in assisting tohold the basket when desired, without diflieulty. basket in shape. In a flexible, angular I A further object is to provide a form of shaped basket, like that described, there is (61 corner clip for a basket of this character, a strong tendency to press the sides outward which will act etl cetively to hold the parts when the basket is filled, that is, there 'is a in the desiredposition. p tendency to force the walls into an approxi- I accomplish these objects by: the means niately circular shape from the normal recshown in the accompanying drawing, in tangnlar shape, causing the cornersof the '25 which, basketto be drawn inwardly. With my -Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fruit particular form of clip such action isprebasket made according to my invention. vented, as said portions 1, f -and f fitfinto Fig. 2 plan view of the baskehblank, and bear firnily against the corner portion before it is folded, Fig. 3 is a detail view .of the basket at its inner side, so that this 30 of one of the corner clips, and Fig. 4 is a portion will not be drawn inwardly, but will I perspective view of a modified form of cor.-' beheld square by the clip. These clips may 1' ner clip. be readily placed in position, as shownain According to my invention I providea Fig. 1, after the boxhas been folded into blank adapted to he died from a sheet of the form intended. '90 ardboard, orwothcr material, which may be in Fig. t I show a slightly modified form eadiliy bcnl','said blank con'iprising a ecn-. 5/ of corner clip, in which the portion c0r tral bottom portion. a. of approximately res ending to the lniddlebracing' portion v 1,- x .I l--I. '.1"

,- square form, tour somewhat. oblong-shaped f, rounded and the inner. portlgltt g igagi side sections, or sides [1, 1-, (l-and I which merely intersect at an angle, and arepress'ed .95

-cxteml from the four side edges of thcbotinto the corner of the basket, v The function 1.

tom ouhrardly, tl'icrcfrom, and a series ot: of this form of clip is substantially the same holding ears, or lugs, a, (1 (1 and as that of the clip already described, but is c, c", uieh"'"pair ol wh h t. lend. front. tln' less desirable, in that it does notbrace the i opposite side of said sides. The line of coin orner as ellicicntly as the other form.'

ncctions ol'lho several sections are scored to l (.laim:- v

permit. them tohc rcadily' bent, as indicated l. A lmock-down. basket comprising a,

I in dotted lines. In. forming tho box the blank having a bottom section, side sections sides 1/, r, (l and .1.- are' bent upwardly, and extending therefrom and a laterally projectthe cars are hoot at right angles, so that the iog car at. one side of each side section, each 50 ear of our side extends across the joint. heoverlapping acorner of the'basket-and the twecn said side and the adjacent.- side, and inner side'ot the adjacent Side section,.and

. overlaps the latter; lips for connecting adjacent side. sections at fastening clip is provided for each -.or-- each corner, each comprising a pair of nor, which consists of a winhcnt to form a spring hooks arranged 'astride the adjacent 5.5 pair of spring clasps f, f, connected by two edge portions of the side sections and 10f.

' lln: overlappingears, the members of each "tending portion at its vertex-arranged to,

clasp within. the basket having an angular connecting .,portion extending at approxi-g matel'yirightangles thereto and formed to" bear against the ear at its bend transversely thereof to hold the basket corner from be- -1ng drawn inwardly, substantiallyas -de scribed.

2. In combination with a basket having jangnlarlyi arranged sides and overlapping staying portions at the corners, 'andstay l5 clioszat each cornereeach comprising "a pair angular connecting portion arranged within the basket and formedxo fit into, the corner thereof against said staying portion, the angle of said. connecting portion .corresponding to the angle between the sides, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signedlny name to this: specification, in the of. two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR A. VERRETTE.

Witnesses: E

L. H. HARRIMAN, H. B. DAVIS.

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